Category Archives: Vulnerability Assessment

It’s almost budgeting season! (Yes, try to restrain your excitement.) At Kenna, we thought we’d offer a few (admittedly biased) thoughts on how to approach your vulnerability management budgeting process. Here’s a hint: it’s not just about the scanner anymore. It’s about automating the tedious and error-prone processes of prioritization and reporting. Read the full infographic below:

Fighting security threats is hard enough, but it’s pretty much impossible if you’re fighting wrong battles. However, that’s what you’re doing if you’re focused on vulnerability remediation. I see it all the time: Security teams live by their spreadsheets. They have lists of vulnerabilities. They stack rank them by severity, start with the most critical, and commence to work through… Read more »

This is part 3 of a 3-part series on Must-Haves for Vulnerability Management. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Must Have #4: Know Your Resources Once you have a good handle on your business, your assets, and what security risks are currently affecting your environment, you’ll need to understand your resources. What do you have at your disposal… Read more »

This blog is Part 2 in a 3-part series on Must-Have Metrics for Vuln Management. Read Part 1 here. Must-Have #2: Know Your Business In order to understand the most pertinent threats and measure the likelihood of exploits, you really need to understand these factors within the context of your business. A great way to apply this knowledge to security… Read more »

In this series of blog posts, we’ll cover the must-have metrics for vulnerability management. The rising cadence of automated attacks means that security teams need to strive to make their own practices as precise and metric-driven as possible. Pouring through spreadsheets and creating 500-page PDFs is no longer enough to ensure that critical vulnerabilities are remediated in time. But what’s… Read more »

Today, we’re announcing new statuses, filters and displays that will impact how you sift through scan data, prioritize vulnerabilities and communicate with your team. New! Vulnerability Statuses We’ve added two new vulnerability statuses that will make it even easier for your team to track the lifecycle of a vulnerability: risk accepted & false positive. These statuses are flagged by the end user… Read more »

This is the third post by Ed Bellis in a three-part series on Vulnerability Scanning. To view all five secrets and two common “gotchas” of vulnerability scanning, please click here. Typically, security teams spend tons of time putting together Excel spreadsheets and swimming through countless rows of data. Doing so will get the job done, eventually…kind of. But the problem is, as… Read more »

This is the second post by Ed Bellis in a three-part series on Vulnerability Scanning. To view all five secrets and two common “gotchas” of vulnerability scanning, please click here. You know what I’m talking about when I talk about the infamous dump-and-run. “Here’s your 300-page PDF with a laundry list of every vulnerability known to man!” From what I’ve… Read more »

This is the first post by Ed Bellis in a three-part series on Vulnerability Scanning. To view all five secrets and two common “gotchas” of vulnerability scanning, please click here. Information security can be a thankless job. I know, I’ve lived it first-hand. When I ran Security at Orbitz, it was absolutely critical that my team and I stayed on top of… Read more »

Last week we quietly launched our 26th and latest connector. With our latest integration our customers can load their OpenVAS results directly into Risk I/O for threat processing and prioritization. To take advantage of the OpenVAS integration, navigate to the Connectors tab and click New Connector. From there select the OpenVAS connector, name it and save it. You can then click… Read more »